The Environment

BigRedBuster said:
Hmmm….I thought Republicans were all for states being able to make decisions. 
 
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Maybe read into why the decision was made instead of tweeting that ignoramous.  
 

https://www.natlawreview.com/article/supreme-court-surprised-many-observers-clean-water-act-decision-it-may-not-mean-what?amp

Although the majority doesn't explain itself, I think it is pretty clear that five Justices didn't think much of a District Court Judge vacating a duly promulgated nationwide regulation, especially without determining the merits of the lawsuit challenging the rule, and especially when the Agency that did the promulgating didn't ask for such an extreme remedy.  

Given what goes into federal rule making, it seems uncontroversial that a better course is for rules not to be erased until the merits of doing so have been determined and then reviewed by an Appeals Court.

So, while Justice Kagan and the other three Justices also have a point that there should be a high bar for the Court to use its emergency jurisdiction to step into matters that have not yet reached the Supreme Court on the merits, the District Court's action, and the Ninth Circuit's refusal to step in, may have been an emergency of a different kind.

 
I don't think humanity is doomed, although it will be extremely harmful to people in third world countries. Economies at the local level - specifically agricultural industry - will have to adapt, even in first world areas.

Personally, I don't really care about what happens to people. They had a few decades notice to fix this issue and decided not to address it. I do, however, agree that there is a certain amount of doom for the environment and many species will go extinct because of this. 

Also, the quoted tweet is pretty stupid. Economic life devolving into the extreme income inequality and poverty of the 1950s isn't exactly a high bar to stay above. I don't think this is the "oWN tEh LiBZ" dunk the tweeter thinks it is, but it's pretty par for the course on climate-skeptic-twitter.

 
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RedDenver said:
SC really dragging the bottom of the barrel for bad decisions.
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I would really like to know what the arguments were and reasoning for the decision.  This could have affects on other EPA regulations.  For Which, there have been some doozies come out lately that I wouldn't mind seeing do down this path.

 
RedDenver said:
SC really dragging the bottom of the barrel for bad decisions.
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This makes sense.

The vote in the West Virginia v. EPA decision on Thursday was 6-3, with the Court’s three liberal members dissenting. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice John Roberts wrote that the EPA “must point to ‘clear congressional authorization’ for the power it claims.” He added, “Capping carbon dioxide emissions at a level that will force a nationwide transition away from the use of coal to generate electricity may be a sensible ‘solution to the crisis of the day, but it is not plausible that Congress gave EPA the authority to adopt on its own such a regulatory scheme.”
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